Exams Vouchers: Juniper Service Provider Routing and Switching Professional (JNCIP-SP) (JN0-662)

Designed for experienced networking professionals with advanced knowledge of the Juniper Networks Junos OS, this written exam verifies the candidate’s understanding of advanced routing technologies and related platform configuration and troubleshooting skills.

JNCIP-SP exam topics are based on the content of the recommended instructor-led training courses, as well as additional resources.

• Exam code: JN0-662
• Written exam
• Administered by Pearson VUE
• Exam length: 120 minutes
• Exam type: 65 multiple-choice questions
• Pass/fail status is available immediately
• Junos Software Release: 17.1

The Contents list provides a general view of the skill set required to successfully complete the specified certification exam

Describe the concepts, operation and functionality of OSPFv2 or OSPFv3

• OSPF area types and operations
• LSA flooding through an OSPF multi-area network
• DR/BDR operation
• SPF algorithm
• Metrics, including external metric types
• Summarize and restrict routes
• Virtual links
• OSPFv2 vs OSPFv3
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor single-area and multi-area OSPF
• Implement OSPF routing policy

Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of IS-IS

• IS-IS areas/levels and operations
• LSP flooding through an IS-IS multi-area network
• DIS operation
• SPF algorithm
• Metrics, including wide metrics
• Route summarization and route leaking
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor single-area and multi-area IS-IS
• Implement IS-IS routing policy

Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of BGP

• BGP route selection process
• Next hop resolution
• BGP attributes – concept and operation
• BGP communities
• Regular expressions
• Multipath
• Multihop
• Load balancing
• Advanced BGP options
• BGP route damping
• Multiprotocol BGP
• Describe the concepts, operation or functionality of BGP scaling mechanisms
• Route reflection
• Confederations
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor BGP
• Implement BGP routing policy

Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of Junos Class of Service (CoS)

• CoS processing on Junos devices
• CoS header fields
• Forwarding classes
• Classification
• Packet loss priority
• Policers
• Schedulers
• Drop profiles
• Rewrite rules
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor CoS

Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of IP multicast

• Components of IP multicast, including multicast addressing
• IP multicast traffic flow
• Any-Source Multicast (ASM) versus Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)
• RPF – concept and operation
• IGMP
• PIM dense-mode and sparse-mode
• Rendezvous point (RP) – concept, operation, discovery, election
• SSM – requirements, benefits, address ranges
• Anycast RP
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor IGMP, PIM-DM, PIM-SM (including SSM) or MSDP
• Implement IP multicast routing policy

Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of Layer 3 VPNs

• Traffic flow – control and data planes
• Full mesh vs. hub-and-spoke topology
• VPN-IPv4 addressing
• Route distinguishers
• Route targets
• Route distribution
• Site of origin
• Sham links
• vrf-table-label
• Layer 3 VPN scaling
• IPv6 Layer 3 VPNs
• Layer 3 VPN Internet access options
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor the components of Layer 3 VPNs
• Describe Junos support for carrier-of-carriers or interprovider VPN models
• Describe Junos support for carrier-of-carriers or interprovider VPN models

Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of BGP Layer 2 VPNs

• Traffic flow – control and data planes
• Forwarding tables
• Connection mapping
• Layer 2 VPN NLRI
• Route distinguishers
• Route targets
• Layer 2 VPN scaling

Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of LDP Layer 2 circuits

• Traffic flow – control and data planes
• Virtual circuit label
• Layer 2 interworking

Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of VPLS

• Traffic flow – control and data planes
• BGP VPLS label distribution
• LDP VPLS label distribution
• Route targets
• VPLS Multihoming
• Site IDs

Describe the concepts, operation, or functionality of EVPN

• Traffic flow – control and data planes
• MAC learning and distribution
• EVPN Multihoming
• BGP EVPN label distribution

Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of how to configure or monitor Layer 2 VPNs

• BGP Layer 2 VPNs
• LDP Layer 2 circuits
• EVPNs
• VPLS